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Mylan volatility expected to move on looking at buying Swedish drug maker MedaMylan volatility is expected to move is looking at buying Swedish drug maker Meda, the Financial Times reports. Overall option implied volatility of 40 is above its 26-week average of 29 according to Track Data, suggesting large price movement.

Mylan says 'off to great start in 2015'The company said, "We are off to a great start in 2015 with the recent completion of our acquisition of Abbott's non-U.S. developed markets specialty and branded generics business and the announcement of our proposed acquisition of Famy Care's women's health care businesses, and we expect that Mylan will deliver 33% revenue growth and 21% adjusted diluted EPS growth on a constant currency basis in 2015. In addition to these exciting activities, and as we have previously stated, you can continue to expect us to aggressively pursue additional acquisition opportunities that make financial and strategic sense for our company."

Mylan completes acquisition of assets from AbbottMylan N.V. and Mylan (MYL) announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Abbott Laboratories' (ABT) non-U.S. developed markets specialty and branded generics business. Under the previously announced terms of the transaction agreement, Abbott received 110M shares of Mylan N.V., resulting in former Mylan shareholders now owning approximately 78% of Mylan N.V. and Abbott now owning approximately 22% of Mylan N.V. Mylan Inc. and Abbott's non-U.S. developed markets specialty and branded generics business have been reorganized under Mylan N.V., a new public company organized in the Netherlands. Mylan N.V. will be led by the former Mylan Inc. executive team. The company will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol MYL.